Vistulans

The Vistulans (Polish: Wislanie ) were a tribe that was the settlement area on the upper Vistula and the previously Ptolemy (Book II, 10) are described as Visburgi.

History

As Vistulans the residents of the Vistula ( altniederdeutsch Wissel, Wyssel ) were appointed by the Bavarian Geographer in the 9th century. In the narrative of the voyage of Wulfstan of Hedeby Wisleland the country is named.

Later stories assume that the Vistulans settled since the 5th century to the territory of the city of Krakow and at the upper Vistula and according to legend of the Wislanenfürst Krakus is said to have founded the city of Krakow. In the 9th century they had an independent state around the city of Krakow and in the upper reaches of the Vistula. Through the State Vistulans led important trade routes connecting Central, and Western Europe with the Kievan state. The Wislanenstaat was the English king Alfred the Great ( 871-901 ) located as " Wisleland " east of Moravia, known. In the records of the apostles Method is a Wislanenfürst, who had an unsuccessful showdown with Svatopluk, whereby the Wislanenstaat came under Moravian influence, mentioned. Krakow was in the field of Chrobaten and belonged to the Great Moravian Empire. About 990 it was conquered by the first Duke of Polans Mieszko I and since then the Wislanengebiet belonged to the Polish state.

1320 Krakow became the capital and the area Vistulans the heartland of Poland. In 1412 the name sources Malopolska ( Lesser Poland ) used for the first.